Someone in Southern California is a whole lot richer after playing the Powerball.
A ticket matching five of the six numbers was sold at the Arco gas station on W. Los Angeles Avenue in Moorpark over the weekend. It’s worth $812,000, the California Lottery announced.
While tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number sold in other states are worth $1 million or $2 million, California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, meaning they are determined by sales and the number of winners…